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right kind of people, could make ail
better home than a big hones' in
which there ways nothing congenial.
Then I fell to talking about you and
your sister and then I think I must
have lost my head a bit for I got
up without another word. and started
for the door. She asked me where I
utas going. I stopped 'long enough to
tell her that I was going to the city
to buy some flowers.
" 'And I'm going to send then to
those two rooms where the geran-
iums are,' I said, 'and they're going
to be put in a white pitcher on the
table where they can be seen all
the time.
" `Where the bare floors are?"
she asked sarcastically.
" 'Yes,' I said. 'Bare floors bare
By FREDERICK WILSON,
PART IL
"There's always a romance even
'Rhe-' yea's not pm-so:sally interested.
I hope I'll never grow so old that I
can't appreciate it. It must be tough
to reach an age when nothing inter- i
ests one."
The sunlight streaming in through
the window shone directly on the
glittering stone. She was :.taring at I
it with wide-open eyes. So this was
the ring which the other girl, who
had everything• in the word, she
thought wearily, was going to pos-
sess.
There came a dull ache in her
heart and she wondered why he had
brought it to her to look at. Ile was 1
torturing her. It was almost" fiend-
ish. And yet, they were simply
friends. She was not of his people
nor of his class.
Th faceted stone borrowed the red'
from the geraniums and flashed it
insolently in her eyes; from the sky!
a pale and irredescent blue.
"There's a story about this," he:
said, She started nervously at the:
sound of his voice. "And that, I sup -j
pose, is what makes me think a lot,
of it, apart from its sentimental
value."
"A story" she asked monotonously.
"That's it. When I was a kid I
used to read a lot of junk and in it
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there was always something about
love affairs and weddings. I had my
head filled with romantic ideas which
haven't yet quite vanished. In one
of the stories there was something
about an engagement ring, a ruby,
which had always been given by the
eldest son of the family to the wo-
man he was to marry.
"That glade a great impression on
me and ever since then I've been
looking for a ring that I thought
would be good enough for the girl I
was to marry. I used to visit the
jewelers and spend no end of time
looking for what I never . seemed
able to find. I think I must have been
very much of a nuisance in those
days of my adolescence but I learned
to know diamonds as far as I could
see them. You seer she—Elsie, I
mean—fancied diamonds ever since
she was a little tot. Her father and
my father were great friends and it
was generally understood that when
we grew up we were to be married."
He was snapping the lid of the
box with nervous clicks and looking
abstractedly out over the roofs of
the houses.
"'When they had the Boxer troub-
les in Pekin, a man-o'-warsnan nam-
ed Mulcahay was in the thick of the
row and the looting. After he was
discharged from the service and had
knocked around the world a bit more
he landed on the for-ard deck of the
governor's motor cat doing the
chauffeur stunt.
"He had a scarf pin of jade with
a diamond set in it. It looked clum-
hands. And I'm going there and
knock at the door after I have elimb-
ed. about a thousand flights of stairs
to get as near as I tan to heaven
and if they are home or if one of
thele is at home—the door will be
opened and I'll be looking into a smil-
ing face and a pair of honest blue
eyes. Then I'll walk in and it'll feel like
a home in a fairy story I've read.
about. After that----' "
There came a gentle tap -tap at the
door and the girl went to answer it.
The man at the window never turned.
his head, but he heard her cry:
"Oh, -oh! How could you?"
Then he looked and saw her arms
full of roses.
" 'She will put them in the white
pitcher right in the centre of the
table,' " he repeated as he, smiled
at her.
"I was beginning to believe in a
fairy story myself," she said as she
arranged them. "How can I thank
you? They are the most beautiful
flowers I have ever seen. What can
I say to you?" She held out her hand
to him and he drew her to the win-
dow.
" 'And after that—' he picked up
the thread of his narrative as he pat-
ted her hand, 'and after that I am
going to ask them to let me live there
with them, just quiet and peaceful --
so griet and restful that it will seem
like another world. "
"You- are dreaming," she said.
"I think so," he answered, and I
want to keep on dreaming." He
opened the box and took out the
ring. "The most wonderful stone in
the whole world has been waiting
all these years for the most wonder-
ful girl. I found her myself but I
thought one time I was never ge ig
to succeed."
sy on account of its size. The first He slipped the ring on the third
time he wore it I knew it was going 'finger of her left hand while it seem -
to be mine and that I had discovered ed to her as if something were ri` h'
what I was ',coking fcr. He told me
he had found it in one of the temples.
What I gave him for it makes no
difference because it has nothing to
do with the story. Besides, money
destroys a romance—it's death. to
sentiment.
"All I know is," he sprung the lid
of the box open again, "that I have Vengeance Wreaked
one of the finest stones in the world. Who Was Photographing Their Nest.
It cannot be matched. Experts have
in her throat to choke her, He held;
both arms out to her and she slipped
between them.
(The Encl.)
ATTACKED BY HORNED OWLS
on Naturalist
examined it through their most pow-•
se few pieces of down on a hill and
erful glasses and have pronounced it some feathers clinging to -the ragged
flawless in construction and coloring. edges of an oak stub, says Mr. F, N.
It is a standard for all dianionds. So Whitman in Bird Lore, called my ate
it became an engagement ring. Look tendon to the owls' nest. I aimed a
at it. Isn't it wonderful?" stick at the top of the stub, and at
She took it fearfully as if it had the second throw the huge form of a
the power to do her evil. great horned owl emerged. The bird
"In all the world there is no other, poised a moment on spreading wings
engagement ring like this," he added, and then disappeared in the woods.
"She ought to be very proud of it," i made the twenty-five•foot climb in
said the white-faced girl. feverietl haste. and with a final swing
"She will be," he sad confidently. landed in a crotch, from which I Iei1k-
"I hope she'll be. happy." Her ed down into the hollow ,top of the
voice fell to so low a 'pitch that he tree. Ll' the cavity below two young
almost failed to hear all she said. owls gazed up at Me with startled
"She must he. Muleahay told me amazement.
that because the diamond had been Iyilile I was phots 'rephing the
set in royal jade it would always be young the old birds hooted their auger
lucky and he knew all about those near by. Growing bolder, they flew
things because he had been three into the trees close at hand and kept
years on the China stetion. They all up a continual cdenier. I was taking
believe that out there—and some of my last picture when, prompted to
them would sooner have jade than look up. I saw one of the old birds
diamonds. Think of that!" sailing directly toward me. Instead .of
"She has a very pretty name—E1- attacking, as it probably first intend-
sie. What color is her hair?" ed, it alighted on a limb six feet away.
"Black—Meek as night." There it perched, alnlo t within reach.
"I must congratulate you—or her" I could sea its powerful talons con.
"Thanks," he said absent-mindedly. tracting for action. Unfortunately, 1
Then, after what seemed a long while, •had tied the camera In place - to
"We've hada row, you know. Just
as if we were really married," He
was smiling. "And it was all about
you, too."
"Me?" She glanced at him quizzi-
cally.
"The very one. I was telling her
about the view from your window and
she said that didn't interest her and
now that I come to think of it, I don't
see why it should. But you see, you
and I and your sister have always
been such great friends that I didn't
realize I was telling her anything she
wouldn't like to hear. I told her
about your two rooms and how they
were furnished and all that sort of
thing---•"`°
"It wasn't nice of you when we have
so little and she has so much," she was bleeding lnnlly. The 1)171- n,, ,exon
erie+ "Tt was re if you were niakir'- n n t
r., ;,;:i S .� -,• head h1L1 El '1 1:+7111. )177 :E'11�.,kitie7l, The
unpiea5_tllt roin;la1F;„irt.”' owl, re. nie d to etrile: in full collision
"Ni.,t thet.1 ;5xc.etly. We bad been se . at the myelo thile to pale, Their
disinsrrng iiia:ts of livi' g and lay eon- oyoi:lit eppeared to -be sufficiently
tention was that two rooms, with the keen even in the bright daylight
photograph trio nest, and so could not
u::e it on the old bird. I had Va sit
astride a limb and wait, for I knew
that a move toward the young would
invite vengeance, Finally, the bird
glided away.
T finished my pictures and begali to
descend. When I was about halfway
down the tree, something struck nae a
terrific blow behind the right ear, and
I nearly lost my grip. A moment
l ass. ed before i could realize what had
flit me, so dazed was i by the force of
the blow, Hardly had 1 recovered niy
grip when another 4111Per blew was
dealt 1ne on the cheek, it lett a deep
gash beneath any eye, The attacks
continued lilrtil I reached the troland,
and as 1 Married array I found that i
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PLANS
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To CONNECT ENGLAND AND'
FRANCE BY RAIL
Channel Tunnel Wilt Enable Trains.
to Run From London to Bombay
and Cape Town.
The construction of the Channel
tunnel, says the London Daily Mail,
will, with the exception of the Pan-
ama Canal, alio the most stiependous
engineering enterprh a yet -planned.
The total length, including the ap
Preaches in England and Franco, will
be thirty nnles, of which rather more
than twenty -ono and a half miles will
be under the sea.
The first work was done on the
t3u1110i in 1874 when u, French com-
pany sank an experimental shaft in
France. In 1181 the Sou=.t'1-Eastern
Railway Company's chairman. Sir E.
Watkin, obtained an act permitting
him to sills: a shaft on the English
side. A boring was driven. for 2,015
wards toward the Channel, when in
1882 the construction was stopped by'
the goveriliaeut. Since then the
scheme has been in abeyance, but in
1013 the government celled for re.
ports from naval and military author-
ities with a view to permitti.';; the
eonetructton if they were favorable.
Then the war came and nothing mores
could be done.
Worked Eiy Electricity.
The present plans provide for the
building of two tunnels, each eighteen
feet in diameter, connected by cross
galleries at intervals of 200 yards.
The lines would be worked by elec.,
tricity as chi the case of the Simplon
tunnel, which is twelve and a half
miles long, and at present the longest..
The maximum depth of water on
the route is 180 feet, and a cover of
chalk 100 feat thick would be left
undisturbed above the crown of the
tunnel to provide against any danger
from an enemy or the sea, so that
the tunnel would descend to a level
of about 200 feet below the sea's sur-
face
Iron tubes will be built up as the
tunnel advance., precisely as in the
London tubes. Owing to the extra-
ordinary advance in the art of tunnel-
ling in recent years the work could
be done quiekiy and it is estimated
that the tunnel itself could be com-
pleted in five or five and a half years.
The cost before the war was esti-
mated at 830,000,000, which amount
now probably would have to . he .coil ._
siderably increased,to $100,000,000.
or even $120,000,000. The working
expenses before the war were ealen-
sated at $2,100,000 a year and the in-
come at 47.? 10.000, but ii,11 estimates
probably would now have to bo ex-
ceeded.
Before tho war it was thought that
British rolling stock, which differs
slightly in gauge from French and
Continental rolling stock, could not
be run over Continental lilies. But
experience curing the war, When
many thousands of British locoluo-
tives and wagons have been reed cn
the French lines, has proved that this
difficulty Bees not exist.
London to Ends of the Earth,
It would be possible to shorten the
journey to Paris greatly. Ileiore the
war the quiel gat service was h1 six
110111's, forty-five minutes, With the
tunnel the journey could be Oche in
six hours, whatever the w;entdler, The
customs ax .Illi.: t ioil could bo ' 11re:ed
out in the trail'.
London would '1e in direct COIII nu -ii -
cation with every part of Ilureae
where the gauge is similar to our
own. Through carriages could be run
to every Continental capital except
Petrograd, as in Russia the gauge is
too wide to admit of standard trai s.
• The Bagdad lines and Re connea-
tions, now completing, will give a
complete route from Constantinople
to the Persian Gulf. This line be con-
nected by track of varying gauge
(soano of which will not admit stan-
dard rolling stock) with Jerusalem
and Cairo, and frons Cairo eventually
a railway is to be carried to the Cape.
ultimately the Indian system will
be connected with the Bagdad Rail- .
way, and a line has already been cars
tied some distance. west from the In-
dian system through Southern Bahl.
chistan, so that it is no mere dreai
that one day trains will run from
London to Calcutta or Bombay.
I+ otirteen per cent. of the soldierfr,
Canada sent overseas were farmePe
boys. Forty-three per cent. of tNs1
soldiers who return will become far 4
ers. These facts, given out. by to
governmenit, furnish an interesititn i
sicleljght. o11 the changes war has
made in soldier 'psychology.
It is always well to look a little ;
ahead. Instead of deploring the dark:
clouds, let us anticipate the fralitg'
and flowers that will follow the doss
cent of the needed showers. i,'
might be always Wretched if we lived
only in the present, for our 1,righ`er:t
time Is vet to Colne.---S11urgCoih,